50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...

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NemoToad wrote: »

My friend adds it to porridge (well mollasses, but it's the same isn't it?)
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So is molasses just the american word for treacle? The potato bread recipe includes molasses but i was going to use treacle...but when i looked in the cupboard we didn't have any so I used malt extract instead (it worked ok!)

re the no knead bread - mine doesn't rise much either, but it tastes so good and fortunately for me DH doesn't mind. Even DD9, who moans about anything other than white plastic bread, has eaten the odd slice so it must taste good. Although the slices are much smaller than shop bought bread it's much more filling so I still only need a couple of slices at a time.

We ran out of time to bake yesterday. Our trip to Mr T's was far more time consuming than I had planned (not to mention cash consuming! but I did get the girls some clothes and bits and bobs for the holidays). So I must must must do some baking today! I'm planning zarazara's stuffing mix bake for dinner too.

Before I forget - Growingafamily - many congrats on the safe arrival of baby Rosie! :j

Yategirl

growingafamily wrote: »

Hi everyone, sorry to go off topic but just popping in to let you know I've finally had my baby today (8 days late !), a little (well 9lb 7oz LOL) girl we've called Rosie. I guess she hung on to share her birthday with her big brother who was 3 today !

Congratulations! and happy birthday to your ds! :j

EagerLearner

debbym wrote: »

Now we are getting into the season where those of you who grow your own stuff are starting to get cheap veg (sighs deeply at regret of having to give up own allotment at start of year due to move...) this is a good recipe combining excess veg and bread with fresh basil- I use my BM to make the dough for me

Stromboli
Take veggies such as courgettes, peppers, tomatoes, onions, garlic, aubergines, mushrooms, etc and cut into chunks - you need about enough to fill a large roasting tin in a single layer
Toss the veggies in a little oil and roast in a hot oven until soft.
Make a basic bread dough from 1 lb flour, 1 sachet yeast, 4 fl oz oil, 10 fl oz warm water 1 tsp sugar and 1/4 tsp salt. Either use a bread maker with a dough setting or mix all the ingredients together to make a dough and leave to double in size in a warm place.
Knead the dough until smooth.
Take a large baking tin. Put some oil in the tin to stop the dough sticking and then with oiled hands spread the dough out to a single layer.
Pile the veggies onto the dough (leave a 2 cm around the edge free) and top with fresh basil leaves. Fold the dough over and press the edges to seal all the veggies in.
Brush the top with a little oil and sprinkle with sea salt if liked.
Bake in a hot oven (Gas 6) for about 40 minutes - it should be risen and brown and sound "hollow" when you tap the top (mine always spreads sideways too hence using a tin not a sheet).
Serve in hunks hot or cold
Cheap and v tasty if you have your own veggies and herbs....the roasted veggies also keep for a day or so in the fridge so I cook them when the oven is on for something else to save the fuel.

Sounds lovely and will def try - I just wanted to add for info that Stromboli is the name of a volcano, off the coast of Italy as I recall... loads of people still live there - the island is literally a volcano :eek: It'e beautiful at night as you can see the lava. Prob why the dough is hollow & then filled with veggies x

redsquirrel80

Congrats to growingafamily!

Only three days till I go on holiday so trying to use up as much fresh stuff as possible and freeze anything I can.

Yesterday was:
Breakfast - Tesco Value weetabix, milk, banana, raisins - 15p
Lunch - sausage casserole - 26p
Snacks - two bananas - 10p
Tea - omelette (one egg, milk, onions, 1/2 courgette, couple of small potatoes, grated parmesan on top), couple of burgers that were in the freezer & a pitta bread - 45p + whatever the burgers cost, think they were just over a pound for 8, so we'll say 25p = 70p

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Total - £1.21

Today:
Breakfast - as yesterday
Lunch - as yesterday
Snacks - as yesterday
Tea - I think chickpea curry and pitta bread - 19p

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Total - 70p

ifonlyitwaseasier

Congratulations growingafamily!!!!


thaks Debbym for the stromboli recipe, sounds fab!! may have to make some for the wedding reception, that would go down very well with my family and friends.

ZoeGirl_3

Wow, congrats growingafamily!! :beer:

Just won a 6 pack of beer, too, lol, so will have a drink to you and yours!!

Weezl, all those meals in the freezer, wow you sound organised...good job you. :T

Haven't spent any money on food this week, :P so think I am doing well.

Hope everyone is having a good week too :j

PS: I am a smiley addict, I love the shrug smiley I keep wanting to put it in txt messages lol...maybe I need help haha

newlywed

Weezl - it's all your fault :mad:

I've just spent time creating a spreadsheet working out what some of my meals cost per head :rolleyes: I'm turning even more geeky (I already work in IT ).

Anyway, the chilli that is currently stewing away in my slowcooker costs me approx 54p a portion - but I usually buy wraps to eat with it That makes it about 71p a portion!!

So today I will have HM tortillas (as per MrsM's recipe) and OH will have to put up with the smaller HM ones

cw18

newlywed wrote: »

I've just spent time creating a spreadsheet working out what some of my meals cost per head :rolleyes: I'm turning even more geeky (I already work in IT ).

Blame the working in IT for the being 'geeky' -- I'm currently in IT as well, and I'm a spreadsheet addict :rotfl:

newlywed

cw18 wrote: »

Blame the working in IT for the being 'geeky' -- I'm currently in IT as well, and I'm a spreadsheet addict :rotfl:

Yeah but I've worked in IT for 8 years now and only just started costing all my meals!!


On another note - watching the Good Life the other night - they used nettles to dye wool green. They also made nettle soup with some extra nettles but they didn't like it Was thinking of this thread while I was watching it all

cw18

I've been in IT since September 1985 -- so almost 23 years now !!! Scarey to think about :eek:
(Unlikely to be by the end of the year though, due to major job cuts and lack of anything else in that line of work around us )

Probably explains my addiction -- but I'm sure you'll catch up with me :rotfl: